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Nobel Prize

Official open data on Nobel Prizes and laureates since 1901

📚 Open DataHEALTHYchecked 54 min ago
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The Nobel Prize's own API serves structured data about prizes, categories, and laureates going back to 1901. Each prize record includes the year, category, award amounts, and the people honored with their motivations. Multilingual labels (English, Norwegian, Swedish) come baked in, no key needed.

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Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
53P50 · ms
2032P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 25 ms, slowest 1197 ms, most recent 41 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.nobelprize.org/2.1/nobelPrizes?limit=1

{
  "nobelPrizes": [
    {
      "awardYear": "1901",
      "category": {
        "en": "Chemistry"
      },
      "dateAwarded": "1901-11-12",
      "prizeAmount": 150782,
      "laureates": [
        {
          "id": "160",
          "fullName": {
            "en": "Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff"
          },
          "portion": "1"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.nobelprize.org/2.1/nobelPrizes?limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://api.nobelprize.org/2.1/nobelPrizes?limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.nobelprize.org/2.1/nobelPrizes?limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /nobelPrizes?limit=153 mschecked 54 min ago
GET/nobelPrizes?limit=1PROBED

Official open data on Nobel Prizes and laureates since 1901

GET/nobelPrizes?limit=5

NobelPrizes — documented GET route.

GET/nobelPrizes?page=1

NobelPrizes — documented GET route.

GET/var/www/html/wp-content/themes/nobelprize//assets/js/frontend/lib/respimg/ls.respimg.min.js

Ls Respimg Min Js — documented GET route.

GET/laureates

Laureates — documented GET route.

GET/nobelPrizes

NobelPrizes — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Nobel Prize: common questions

Is Nobel Prize free to use?

Yes — Nobel Prize is a free open data API. Free tier: Free — no key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Nobel Prize need an API key?

No — Nobel Prize needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Nobel Prize from the browser?

Yes — Nobel Prize returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Nobel Prize up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Nobel Prize is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 53 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.